“Huckleberry Finn in Love and War, the lost journals” by Dan Walker.
Published by Pblish America.  It can be ordered by internet from that publishing company or from Amazon.com. It costs $24.95.

Walker answers the questions Mark Twain avoided: What if Huck Finn carries out his promise, at the end of the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to “light out for the Territory?” Twain himself got 62 pages into the prairie and lost interest. But what if Huck, Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher are caught up—as they surely would be—in the crisis of the Civil War ? What choices will they make when history calls? For the boy who once said “All right, then, I’ll go to Hell,” what might that mean in the Valley of Mexico parted from the love of his life, apparently forever, or behind rebel lines in the wilderness of central Virginia with the duty to kill or capture old friends on the other side? How would that ageless boy do in such trials? Hell might be preferable.

Dan Walker grew up in Henrico County—now teaches English in the Commonwealth Governor’s School near Fredericksburg—was Ranger Historian for the National Battlefield Park, Wilderness Campaign for several summers.

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